People in my apartment block are mostly immigrants, like me, but they don’t greet me. I live here four years and I don’t have any friends
How much charity is too much?
For the third year now, a charity project in Dublin 8 (www.swicn.ie) provides free English conversational classes to people from various countries.
Re-entry shock – you can’t go home again
Culture shock is defined by Wikipedia as the “difficulty people have adjusting to a new culture that differs markedly from their
Going home
West coast and East coast of the U.S. are very different, people always told me. West coast was my home for 6 months - spring and summer. At the
Saying bye slowly makes parting easier
Last days of my INVEST fellowship Visiting research scholars make new friends quickly and parting is not always easy for them. I said bye in
Renting a guitar for Healdsburg Guitar Festival
The guitar festival in Healdsburg, just north of Santa Rosa, California (August 9-11), was busy with wonderful luthiers and some great players
A decade in the addictions field
Edited March 4, 2020 by janklimas ... or women, men and non-binary folk who mentored me. Career in addiction health services research can be
26 weeks investing in Portland
Welcome to my INVESTing log. INVEST is the International Visiting Scientists & Technical Exchange Program for drug abuse research sponsored by
Doing research with busy doctors – an open space world
Family doctors are notoriously busy. Lack of their time is the number #1 barrier of doing anything outside their patient workload, including research.